1872 He is the defendant in a case brought by his late brother David’s sons.

He is named as Henry Jacobs of 68 High Holborn

David Jacobs had a business under the name ‘David Jacobs’ at 33 Haymarket

David died in 1869 and left his business to his 2 sons, Philip David and Angelo Jacobs

In 1871 Henry left Brighton and established himself at 68 High Holborn

He put up a sign on his shop ‘Brother to the late David Jacobs’ but the ‘Brother to the late’ was so small as to not be noticed.

Henry lost the case

This tells us that Henry was in Brighton until sometime in 1871

His brother was David Jacobs

So we now have:

Born in London

DOB 1832-1833 (Discounting the hard to read 42 in 1881)

Lived in America (probably Kentucky) between approx. 1855 – 1857

Was brother to David Jacobs of 33 Haymarket

When he was in Brighton entries in the various trade directories for Brighton indicate that he was originally there in a business and house belonging to David Jacobs – his elder brother.

He died in 1911 Age: 79 so DOB C 1832

We don’t have either of his marriage certificates.

It is believed that he married his first wife, Ellen Silverstone, in Ohio/Kentucky but no documentation of the marriage has been found – yet! In any case the Cincinnati records were destroyed in a fire around 1870 and although the records have been reconstructed Henry was back in England by then so probably wasn’t aware that the authorities were asking people to re-register.

Ellen died in 1913 so they obviously separated sometime between 1871 and 1881. If they didn’t divorce then this would probably explain why we can’t find a marriage between Henry and Elizabeth Twine.

All in all we have no direct link to Moses

We do however have a link to his brother David Jacobs, so let’s look at David’s details